Using new scanning techniques, archaeologists compared two sets of earthenware jars discovered in First Temple-era Judea and made a surprising discovery. Rossella Tercatin writes:
The archaeologists looked at jars carrying two different seal impressions, the [Hebrew] letters LMLK—forming the inscription l’melekh, to the king—and “Rosetta” jars, whose handles are imprinted with a small flower and petals that are surrounded by a circle. The vessels were used for commercial purposes and for tax collection. The LMLK jars date back to a period between the 9th and the 7th centuries BCE and were common in the area of what is now south-central Israel.
In 701 BCE, King Sennacherib of Assyria launched a vast military operation in the region that is well documented in the Bible and in Assyrian chronicles.
From the 7th century, the LMLK jars were not produced any more, while by the end of the century and the beginning of the 6th century the Rosetta jars appeared in Jerusalem and its surroundings and were used until the Babylonian destruction in 586 BCE. . . . The questions of how a new ceramic tradition completely separated from the previous one developed in the kingdom of Judah and who was the group and culture responsible for it—as well as whether it was connected to the Assyrian conquest—remain open.
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